1. Transmission lines shall be built of strong and proper wires attached to strong and sufficient supports properly insulated at all points of attachment; all wires, poles, and other devices which by ordinary wear or other causes are no longer safe shall be removed and replaced by new wires, poles, or other devices, as the case may be, and all abandoned wires, poles, or other devices shall be at once removed. Where wires carrying current are carried across, either above or below wires used for other service, the said transmission line shall be constructed in such manner as to eliminate, so far as practicable, damages to persons or property by reason of said crossing. There shall also be installed sufficient devices to automatically shut off electric current through said transmission line whenever connection is made whereby current is transmitted from the wires of said transmission line to the ground, and there shall also be provided a safe and modern improved device for the protection of said line against lightning. The utilities commission shall have power to make and enforce such further and additional rules relating to location, construction, operation and maintenance of transmission lines as may be reasonable.
2. All transmission lines, wires or cables outside of cities for the transmission, distribution or sale of electric current at any voltage shall be constructed and maintained in accordance with standards adopted by rule by the utilities commission. [S13, §2120-r; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §8326; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, §489.18; C66, 71, 73, 75, §489.19; C77, 79, 81, §478.19] 84 Acts, ch 1101, §3; 2018 Acts, ch 1026, §147; 2024 Acts, ch 1170, §369 \n
Notes of Decisions
Strom v. Des Moines & Cent. Iowa Ry. Co., 82 N.W.2d 781 (Iowa 1957).
· cites it 4× “Section 478.19, Code 1954, I.C.A. provides in substance that a whistle shall be twice sharply sounded at least 60 rods before a road crossing is reached and then the bell shall be rung continuously until the crossing is passed.”
Mast v. Illinois Cent. R. Co., 79 F. Supp. 149 (N.D. Iowa 1948).
· cites it 4× “In failing to blow the whistle and ring the bell, or give any signal of the train or locomotive approach to said crossing as provided in Section 478.19 of the 1946 Code of Iowa, so as to warn the said Harry E.”
Kinney v. Larsen, 31 N.W.2d 635 (Iowa 1948).
· cites it 2× “This action against the railroad and the engineer on the train is bottomed on their negligence in failing to sound a whistle and ring a bell as required by section 478.19, Code, 1946, and of course, upon plaintiff’s freedom from contributory *496 negligence.”
Stewart v. Madison, 278 N.W.2d 284 (Iowa 1979).
“In fact, the railroad does not even raise on appeal the issue of sufficiency of the evidence as to failure to ring a bell — only as to the sounding of a horn.”
Rosin v. Nw. States Portland Cement Co., 107 N.W.2d 559 (Iowa 1961).
· cites it 2× “14 of the 1954 Code; in failing to sound the whistle at least 60 rods from the crossing and ring the bell as provided by section 478.19; in failing to keep a lookout and to provide a flagman or some adequate warning device at the crossing.”
Maier v. Illinois Cent. R.R. Co., 234 N.W.2d 388 (Iowa 1975).
· cites it 2× “1, The Code, among other things, requires a railroad to erect at each crossing “ * * * a sign with large and distinct letters placed thereon, to give notice of the proximity of the railway, and warn persons of the necessity of looking out for trains.”
Daly Ex Rel. Est. Daly v. Illinois Cent. R.R., 80 N.W.2d 335 (Iowa 1957).
· cites it 2× “Section 478.19 (1950) 1954 Code, provides: “A bell and a steam whistle shall be placed on each locomotive engine operated on any railway, which whistle shall be twice sharply sounded at least sixty rods before a road crossing is reached, and after the- sounding of the whistle…”
Hoyt v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pac. R.R. Co., 206 N.W.2d 115 (Iowa 1973).
· cites it 2× “2d 843, 845-846 (1958); § 478.19, The Code. Thus, a warning by whistle and bell is an ordinary signal; a warning by a signal named in § 321.”
Hammarmeister v. Illinois Cent. R.R. Co., 117 N.W.2d 463 (Iowa 1962).
· cites it 2× “It is only where the ordinary statutory signals are insufficient that additional warning is required. The ordinary statutory requirements are: 1.”
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